Good morning all from a showery Glasgow, where it is 12°C.
GM, what a lovely thought from your neighbour.
I didn't post yesterday, we had Babydoll and I was overwhelmed by the events of the previous day.
The post would no longer have been a novella, but a novel and indulgent of me to offload my many woes on others.😉
A brief summary :
* The plumber was here for nine hours
* Both bathrooms were out of use
* The water was off
* I visited the GP surgery three times (a twenty minute journey each way.)
* Instead of nine prescriptions, I received one!
* Later, instead of one prescription for a controlled drug, I received two. A serious error, as Susan will confirm.
* I burst into tears in the surgery.
* The road around the surgery were so gridlocked (temp traffic lights at a major junction), I was forced to drive into the next town past TKMaxx 😭 and double back through the back roads, past one of the hospitals, I am familiar with. I did think of abandoning my car, throwing myself at their mercy and begging for a bed.😉
* Performing my bowel screening test was impossible. (No water, no usable facilities and a strange man in the house.
* In the middle of the bedlam, the P.P phoned to tell me that he was having to go back into hospital yesterday and was having major surgery, due to complications from his surgery a few weeks ago. 😱
The poor man has been in horrific pain.
The positives
* I now have all the missing prescriptions
* I have three new treatments
* I suspect that the oral medicine consultant's letter made it clear that there had been a failure in my treatment, for all of a sudden the surgery are interacting with me.
Also, my GP of thirty years was standing behind me yesterday and pretended he didn't see me, that's the second time in two weeks! Something isn't right.
* All of the receptionists, I encountered treated me with kindness and compassion and excelled themselves in trying to remedy the prescription fiasco.
* When I burst into tears and said it was all too much, one of the receptionists asked if the unprofessional GP was the one, who suggested buying Bonjela. When I confirmed it, the receptionists exchanged glances and one handed me a complaints form.
Apparently, there has never before been so many complaints about a GP ( in fact, one who is not not a trainee, but a new partner.)
* Two leaks were found by the plumber and some jobs on our to do list were also done, at very reasonable cost.
I have never met such a tidy workman. I caught him washing the bathroom floor.
When I complimented DD on her choice of plumber, she burst out laughing. He is my neighbour!
She lives in a large village and all the elecricians, plumbers etc, help each other out. I seem to have taught half of them.
Yesterday, it was back to the surgery for one more missing script. I have now been admitted to the inner of circle of the local worthies in the pharmacy. It has taken me over forty years to be accepted as a local, but I think I have made it!🤣
Later, when Babydoll was napping, I went to the pharmacy in torrential rain, driving on badly flooded roads. While stuck in traffic, my low fuel warning light came on, there was no petrol station nearby.😭
I haven't been driving for weeks , therefore never noticed, This is the first time in forty eight years of driving, this has happened. I'm usually so careful.
Today DH is accompanying me to Silverburn, a place he loathes, but I cannot manage on my own at the moment and I have a White Stuff parcel to collect 😉
We are doing the school run and Dollie is staying overnight and a chippy has been requested, suits me, no cooking!!
Susan, I hope you are being to improve.
Blossming sent me a one line email, saying all is not well. I am very concerned.
I will come back later and read. DIL is dropping Dollie's overnight bag and I am still in bed!!
Have a good day folks and thanks for the messages and good wishes.
